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Laboratory studies of the algaecide GreenTD: stability, algaecidal activity and reduction of microcystin production

Applied Biological Chemistry volume 64, Article number: 22 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

GreenTD (Dichlorobenzyl derivative, MW 362.17) is a new dichlorobenzyl derivative algaecide. It is effective and selective against harmful algal blooms (HABs). HABs cause serious problems for public health and fishery industries. Algae that cause HABs include Microcystis spp., Anabaena spp., and Aphanizomenon spp. Blooms of toxin-producing Microcystis aeruginosa occur regularly in fresh water where is rich in nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients. Environmental fate studies are needed to investigate the degradation of GreenTD. In the present study, we studied the persistence of GreenTD (90% aqueous solution) in water and toxic effects GreenTD on M. aeruginosa and reduction of microcystin production in the culture media. GreenTD was added in the water pots and microcystis media tubes at levels of 25 g/0.1 ha (0.5 mg/kg) and 50 g/0.1 ha (1.0 mg/kg). Samples were collected after 1, 3, 5, 7 and 14 days. The residues of GreenTD and microcystins in water and the media were determined using high performance liquid chromatography-diode array detection and ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, respectively. The half-life of GreenTD at concentrations of 0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg was 4.5 and 3.6 days, respectively. This result presents a safety level suitable for the acceptable guideline of water residue. The average recoveries of microcystins RR, YR, LR, and LA were 106–115%, 103–110%, 96–105% and 89–113% in the microcystis media, respectively. The limit of detection of (LOD) the microcystins was 0.1 µg/kg. No microcystins in the media were detected at the LOD (0.1 µg/kg). GreenTD at concentrations of 0.2 and 0.5 µg/kg had a 100% of control efficacy of M. aeruginosa. No growth of the blue-green algae was observed after 14 days of GreenTD application.

Introduction

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) previously known as red tide are now a worldwide marine environmental concern as they produce toxins hazardous for the marine eco-system [1]. An excess amount of nitrogen and phosphorus based nutrients, high water temperature, light intensity and stable conditions are the promoting parameters for the formation of HABs via natural photosynthesis [2, 3].

In 1972, red tide was observed to disperse and stimulated throughout the region via tropical storm at United States [1]. In 1970, red tide was found at the east coast of Tasmania and then dispersed to the mainland Australia [1]. Bloom of the dinoflagellate was observed at the coastal region of Japan and Hong Kong that caused mass mortalities of oysters short-necked clams [4]. In 1970s, HABs were occasionally observed at the inner bay of the Korean coastal region. HABs started spreading in 1980, while it was observed everywhere in the Korean coastal region in 1990. In 1995 the estimated losses resulted by HABs were 60 million U.S. dollars to the Korean aquaculture industry [4, 5]. Due to climate change, species that were the source of red tide were also changed from diatom to flagella and dinoflagellate. Heterocapsa circularisquama is one of the harmful algae that have been associated with shellfish mortality [6]. Moreover, during algal blooms, a large amount of microcystin can be produced by cyanobacteria that cause great environmental risks during water supply for drinking and irrigation [7]. So far, more than 50 microcystins have been found and the most common microcystins are microcystin-RR, -YR, -LR, and -LA. Besides that, HABs can directly affect the human health as large portions of human diet are collected from the marine sources. Therefore, HABs are responsible for huge economic losses and environmental damages.

Several ways such as applications of biological agents, clay flocculants, chemical algaecides, and physical manipulation have been utilized to control HABs [8,9,10,11,12,13,14]. Among them, application of chemical algaecide is considered as an effective and popular technique [15, 16]. In order to inhibit the growth of HABs species, the design of a selective and eco-friendly chemical agents are the interest of present research [6]. Thiazolidinedione derivatives have been screened against the growth of HAB species and TD49 was found as an effective algicide against HABs [17, 18].

In order to provide guidelines for the safe use of the aquatic chemicals, ecological risk assessments (ERAs) for chemical contaminants are operated mainly to investigate the maximum environmental concentrations that do not have any adverse ecological effects [4]. Therefore, attention should be given for analysis of residual chemicals in aquatic ecosystems during ERA as an uncounted amount of residue may provide wrong information on toxicity prediction [19].

GreenTD (Dichlorobenzyl derivative, MW 362.17) is a new dichlorobenzyl derivative algaecide that was developed by Curearth (Gwangju, Korea) [20]. It is effective and selective against HABs. HABs cause serious problems for public health and fishery industries. The LD50 and acceptable daily intake (ADI) of GreenTD was 2000 mg/kg bw and 90 mg/kg bw/day, respectively. The safe application of the product was mentioned as 0.1 ~ 0.5 ppm [20]. However, the persistence information of the algaecide in an aquatic environment is needed for the ERA. Few published methods were reported to determine GreenTD using HPLC-UVD [21], although several analytical methods have been available for the analysis of four microcystins using LC-MS/MS [22,23,24]. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to develop an analytical method for the algaecide GreenTD and observe the inhibition activities of GreenTD on microcystin formation.

Materials and methods

Chemicals and reagents

Analytical standard GreenTD (Dichlorobenzyl derivative, MW 362.17, Purity 99.7%) was supplied by Curearth (Gwangju, Republic of Korea). The substance of the thiazolidine derivative, GreenTD had been developed by the applied chemical materials lab of Korean Chosun University and then Curearth produced through the mass production process. The chemical structure of GreenTD could not be provided due to intellectual property rights [25]. Methanol, water, and dichloromethane were of HPLC grade and were purchased from Burdick & Jackson (SK Chemical, Ulsan, Korea). Anhydrous sodium sulfate, trifluoroacetic acid, and sodium chloride were of analytical grade and were supplied by Sigma & Aldrich Chemical Co. Ltd. (St. Louis, Missouri, United States).

Calibration curve construction

An amount of 20.1 mg of GreenTD standard (99.7%) was dissolved in 100 mL of water to make 200 mg/L stock solution. The stock solution was diluted with water to make various concentration of working standard solution: 0.1, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 mg/L, and then inject a 20 µL into HPLC–DAD (UV 230 nm). The calibration curve was prepared based on the peak area of the chromatogram against concentration.

Sampling and treatment

Distilled water and paddy soil (1062-13, Oji-ri, Ogok-myeon, Gokseong-gun, Jeollanam-do) were used for the study of GreenTD degradation dynamics. The soil characteristics are shown in Table 1. After removing impurities such as stones and debris, paddy soil samples were collected at 10 cm depth using a soil sampler, mixed well and placed in a bag and transported to the laboratory. This sample was shaded and passed through a 2 mm sieve to obtain a test sample. The soil sample was then evenly filled in a container (23.0 cm × 17.0 cm × 13.0 cm h.) to a height of 2.5 cm; distilled water was poured so that the height became about 3.0 cm from the ground. Substances floating on the surface of the water are removed using a fine mesh and left for 3 days, and then the GreenTD 90% commercial product per pot is treated with a volume of 25 g/10a and 1.17 mg and 50 g/10a and 2.34 mg. After treatment, distilled water was added so that the water depth became 5 cm, and the surface water level was marked. (The actual weight was 1.0 kg of soil and 2.0 L of water.). The algaecide treatment is shown in Table 2.

Table 1 Physical and chemical properties of soil
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Table 2 Application information of test substance (90% Green TD)
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Sample pre-treatment method for GreenTD

Water sample

The collected water sample was filtered immediately and a 50 mL portion was concentrate to make 5 mL using an evaporator under reduced pressure. The sample was then directly injected to HPLC–DAD.

Soil sample

A 50 g soil sample was placed in a 500 mL round bottomed flask to which a 100 mL of 6 N sulfuric acid was added. The sample was then refluxed at 180 °C for 5 h, cool, centrifuge (Hanil Science Industrial, 514R), and alkalinized with 6 N NaOH. A 50 mL of water and a 50 mL of saturated NaCl solution were added and mix well. A 30 mL of CHCl3 was added to the mixture and shake well with a mechanical shaker (Eyela, MMV-1000W, Korea) and transfer the upper organic layer to another round bottomed flask after passing through anhydrous Na2SO4. The addition of CHCl3 step was repeated for 5 more times and combines the organic layer and dried with a rotary evaporator (Buchi Co., R-300, Switzerland). The sample extract was reconstituted in 5 mL of water.

Blue-Green medium for microsystin formation

Blue-green medium BG11 was collected from Unipath Ltd, Hants, OPW, UK. A Growth Chamber (Vision, VS-91G09M-1300) was used for cell culture at illuminance of 3000 Lux. After microcystis cultivation, 50 ml of the culture solution was confirmed, and then 0.5 ppm and 1.0 ppm of GreenTD were treated (Fig. 1). After application, samples were collected at 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, and 21 days and analyzed. The supernatant was collected from the culture solution sample, centrifuged at 12,000 rpm for 2 min, filtered through a 0.45 um GHP syringe filter, and then analyzed by injecting 10 μL into an ultra-performance liquid chromatograph-tandem mass spectrometer (LC–MS/MS).

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Treatment pots of test substances after microcystis was grown in blue-green medium. a Microcystis in culture (50 mL), b Blank (only microcystis), c 0.5 mg/L of GreenTD, d 1.0 mg/L of GreenTD, e 30 mg/L of polyaluminium chloride ([Al(OH)mCl6-m]n, PAC), f; 50 mg/L of PAC, g 200 mg/L of red clay, h 200 mg of PAC and red clay (V/V, 1:1)

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Instrument

Liquid chromatography-diode array detection (LC-DAD)

A Shimadzu LC-2040C MT Plus (Japan) coupled with a diode array detector was employed for GreenTD analysis. Compound was separated on a Shiseido Capcellpak C18 UG 120 Ǻ (4.6 × 250 mm, 5 µm) column kept in an oven at 40 °C. A binary mobile phase, A: water with 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid, and B: methanol with 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid was flowed with 75% A at 1.5 mL/min in an isocratic mode. The injection volume was 20 µL and the run time was 15 min. The detection wavelength for GreenTD was 230 nm. Lab solution software was used for data acquisition and processing.

Ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC–MS/MS)

A Waters AQUITY UHPLC system (Waters, Hertfordshire, UK) coupled with an AB SCIEX 4500 QTRAP mass spectrometer (SCIEX, CA, USA) was used for microcystin analysis in multi-reaction monitoring mode. An Ultra Quat column (50 mm × 2.1 mm × 3 µm) (Restek, PA, USA) was employed for compound separation. A binary mobile phase contains 0.1% formic acid in water, A; and 0.1% formic acid in acetonitrile, B were flowed in a gradient mode at 0.8 mL/min. The mobile phase gradient is as follows: at the beginning mobile phase was started with 80% A and kept constant until 1.0 min. At 4.0 min it was decreased to 60% A and remained unchanged until 6 min. At 6.1 min the aqueous phase was increased to 80% A and remains same until 7.0 min. The column oven temperature was 40 °C and the injection volume was 10 µL. The tandem mass was operated in positive electrospray ionization mode. The ion spray voltage was 5500 v and vaporizer temperature was 450 °C. Nitrogen was used as ion source gas and the pressure was 40 psi. Collision gas pressure was 9 psi and curtain gas pressure was 20 psi.

Method validation

In this study, the method validation was partially followed Codex guidelines for agrochemicals [26]. The limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification (LOQ), linearity, selectivity, accuracy, and precision were taken into account for method development. The LOD is the lowest signal of the analytes that is three times higher than the background noise, whereas, LOQ is the lowest quantitated signal that is 10 times higher than the background noise. Linearity was achieved from the determination co-efficient (R2) resulted from six levels (0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, and 1.0 mg/kg) calibration curve for GreenTD and different six concentration levels (0.0001, 0.0003, 0.0005, 0.0008, 0.0010, and 0.0020 mg/kg) for microcystins. Selectivity was evaluated from the blank chromatogram where no interferences were observed at the retention time of target analysts. Accuracy was measured from the recovery of fortified standard in two different concentrations. Precision was calculated from the repeatability of three replicated analysis.

Results and discussion

Method validation

The LOD and LOQ were 0.003 and 0.01 mg/kg, respectively, for GreenTD, whereas LOD and LOQ were 0.00003 and 0.0001 mg/kg for microcystins. The six level calibration curves provide excellent linearity with coefficient of determinants (R2) ≥ 0.9992 for GreenTD and 0.9936 ~ 0.9988 for microcystins (microcystin-RR, microcystin-YR, microcystin-LR, microcystin-LA). The average recoveries of GreenTD in water and soil were 78.9 ~ 88.2% (RSD ≤ 2.95%) and 76.1 ~ 78.1% (RSD ≤ 1.42%), respectively (Table 3). The recoveries of four microcystins were averaged between 73.6% and 109.6% with relative standard deviations (R2) ≤ 9.47 (Table 4). Mass spectra for microcystins were collected in positive ion mode with a fragmentation voltage of 150 V (Table 5). The recovery and repeatability of GreenTD and microcystins were in an acceptable range (Recovery 60 ~ 120% and RSD < 30%) according to Codex guidelines [26].

Table 3 Limit of detection, fortification concentration, and recovery of GreenTD in water and soil
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Table 4 Limits of quantification, linearity, recovery and repeatability of four microcystins
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Table 5 Multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) condition for four microcystins
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GreenTD degradation dynamics

In the water pots and microcystis media tubes, GreenTD was added at levels of 25 g/0.1 ha (0.5 mg/kg) and 50 g/0.1 ha (1.0 mg/kg). After 0, 1, 3, 5, 7 and 14 days of application samples were collected and analyzed. The residual degradation dynamic of GreenTD is shown in Fig. 2. As predicted, a slow and steady degradation of the algaecides on the treated pot was monitored as a function of days after treatment. The degradation dynamic of the residue can be explained via first order kinetic model utilizing data linearization by sketching residues versus time. The degradation of GreenTD can be statistically interpreted assuming the residues declined following first-order kinetic equation (ln C = ln Co − kt), where C is the amount of residues in concentration at a specific time t after application of algaecides, Co is the concentration of residues at 0 days and k is the rate constant. The determination coefficient (R2) indicates the dissipation behavior following first order kinetics. The dissipation study provides information about the persistence of the residues that can be observed from half-life (T1/2) and derived from the equation 0.693/k [27]. Therefore, at concentrations of 0.5 mg/kg the half-life of GreenTD was 4.5 days and at 1.0 mg/kg it was 3.6 days.

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Dissipation rate of Green TD in water. Single dose (25 g/10 a): a a dissipation curve, (a-1) as first order plot; double dose (50 g/10 a): b a dissipation curve, (b-1) as first order plot. Co is the initial concentration and C the concentration at time t. *T1/2 is calculated from semi ln(C/Co) versus t equation

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Translocation of GreenTD from water to soil

Green TD was found to move from water to soil after 7 days. The average residues after 21 days was < 0.02 mg/L for both treatment of 25 g/0.1 ha (0.5 mg/kg) and 50 g/0.1 ha (1.0 mg/kg). The total residual amount of Green TD in the soil lower layer were 0.03 ~ 0.47 mg/kg and 0.05 ~ 0.92 mg/kg, respectively, for the treatment of 25 g/0.1 ha and 50 g/0.1 ha.

GreenTD may be leachable in soil, particularly when it is at a high concentration. Most GreenTD in soils are decomposed, while a trace amount is adsorbed. GreenTD may also undergo photolysis and microbial degradation in the environment.

Algae removal efficiency and eco toxicity of GreenTD

Algae control efficacies were evaluated after treatment of GreenTD at 0.5 mg/L and 1 mg/L in indoor and outdoor environments under fluorescent lights. When 1 mg/L of GreenTD was used, the removal efficiency was higher. There was no significant difference between indoor and outdoor comparative experiments. The results are shown in Table 6. As shown in Table, the outdoor study showed 60.0% and 60.2% removal efficiencies after 30 and 60 min, respectively, when using 1 mg/L of GreenTD. On the other hand, when using 0.5 mg/L of GreenTD, the removal efficiency was 50.7% and 51.3%, respectively, after 30 and 60 min. The results indicated a dose-dependent control efficacy of GreenTD for HABs.

Table 6 Evaluation of algae removal efficiency and ecotoxicity of GreenTD for outdoor and indoor studies
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Similarly in the case of indoor study, the control efficacy was higher when 1 mg/L of GreenTD was used compared to 0.5 mg/L. In the indoor environment, when 1 mg/L of GreenTD was applied, the removal efficiency was 61.3% and 60.1% after 30 and 60 min, respectively, whereas, for application of 0.5 mg/L, the efficacy of GreenTD was 46.9% and 47.4%, respectively that is about 4% lower efficiency than 1 mg/L.

Algae removal efficiency and ecological toxicity (water flea, luminescent bacteria) evaluation have been conducted in accordance with Article 9 (Substance of registration for Algae remove) and No. 3 (Guidelines for the installation and operation of algae removal facilities and the use of algae removal materials for application) (Additional file 1). With the evaluation of algae removal efficiency, the ecological toxicity was conducted for two species of daphnia and luminescent bacteria in water collected after treatment of 30 and 60 min of GreenTD. No significant effect was observed in both outdoor and indoor studies.

Microcystin in blue-green medium

Microcystis, a species of toxin from cyanobacteria, is present in the intracellular cytoplasm. However, microcystins are not discharged into the water system during the active growth of cyanobacteria. When cells die or are destroyed, microcystins are released along with chlorophylla from microcysts. An indoor experiment was carried out where the number of microcystine cells was maintained 200,000, which is similar to algae generated in general rivers, but it was observed that the outflow of microcystine into the water system requires an enzyme that acts as a catalyst, and the microcystine inducing substance in the water system is unknown (Fig. 1).

In the present study, the effectiveness of GreenTD was evaluated by performing field tests through green algae production to identify the presence of microcystin and the tendency to increase and decrease after treatment with GreenTD. Therefore, microcystis was cultured in an indoor experimental system and the GreenTD treated (0.5 ppm and 1.0 ppm) cultured samples collected at 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 14, and 21 days were analyzed for four microcystins (Microcystin-RR, LR, LA, and YR) via LC-MS/MS. However, no microcystins were observed at the 0.1 ppb detection level (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3
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UPLC-MS/MS chromatogram of four microcystins (Microcystin-RR, Microcystin-YR, Microcystin-LR and Microcystin-LA)

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Degradation dynamics and algaecidal activities such as microcystins formation of GreenTD have been studied. Both GreenTD and microcystins provided an acceptable recovery and precision. The half-life of GreenTD for the treatment of 0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg were found 4.5 and 3.6 days, respectively. No microcystin was formed at the GreenTD treated blue-green media indicated the algaecidal activities of GreenTD. Ecotoxicity studies also indicated about the safety of GreenTD application.

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Conceived and designed the experiments: IKC, JUS, D-GL, and MMR. Performed the experiments: IKC, JUS, D-GL and HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IKC, JUS, D-GL, HS and HC. Wrote the paper: IKC, MMR, and JUS. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Cho, I.K., Seol, J.U., Rahman, M.M. et al. Laboratory studies of the algaecide GreenTD: stability, algaecidal activity and reduction of microcystin production. Appl Biol Chem 64, 22 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13765-021-00591-9

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13765-021-00591-9

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